# παίω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* πήω (pḗō) — Boeotian

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pēu-, *pyu-, *pū- (“to hit; to cut”). Cognates include Latin paviō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pǎi̯.ɔː/ → /ˈpɛ.o/ → /ˈpe.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pǎi̯.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpɛ.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈpɛ.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈpe.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈpe.o/

### Verb

παίω • (paíō)
* to strike, hit
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1384
** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 397
** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 957
** Alciphron, Collected Works 3.43
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 4.4
** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 497
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 549
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1391
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1063
** c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 685
** c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 794
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.137
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.107
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On a Wound by Premeditation 6
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 24
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 242
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1315
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1270
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.47
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.8.26
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.8.12
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 6.18
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.6.4
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.3.6
** to strike one thing against another
*** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 409
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1472
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pyrrhus 15
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1274
** to drive away
*** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 456
** (sexual intercourse)
*** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 874
** (figuratively) to quench one's thirst
*** 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 138
* (intransitive) to strike against or upon
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1007
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 885
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 745
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.3
* to devour
** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 835

#### Synonyms

* πλήσσω (plḗssō)
* κρούω (kroúō)

#### Derived terms

* ἀμφῐπαίω (amphĭpaíō)
* ἀνᾰπαίω (anăpaíō)
* ἀντῐπαίω (antĭpaíō)
* εἰσπαίω (eispaíō)
* ἐκπαίω (ekpaíō)
* ἐμπαίω (empaíō)
* κᾰτᾰπαίω (kătăpaíō)
* πᾰρᾰπαίω (părăpaíō)
* περιπαίω (peripaíō)
* σῠμπαίω (sŭmpaíō)
* ὑπερπαίω (huperpaíō)

#### Related terms

* παιητέον (paiētéon)

#### References

* “παίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “παίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* παίω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G3817 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* παίω in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften